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Job 10:10
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Did you not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese?
Haven't you poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
You formed me inside my mother like cheese formed from milk.
Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
'Have You not poured me out like milk And curdled me like cheese?
'Did You not pour me out like milk, And curdle me like cheese,
Haven't you poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not powred me out as milke? & turned me to cruds like cheese?
Did You not pour me out like milkAnd curdle me like cheese,
Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
As cheese is made from milk, you created my body from a tiny drop.
Didn't you pour me out like milk, then let me thicken like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
You poured me out like milk. You spun me around and squeezed me like someone making cheese.
Thou hast churned me as milk, and curdled me as cheese.
You gave my father strength to beget me; you made me grow in my mother's womb.
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
Did You not pour me out like milk; yea, curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not milked me, as it were mylck: and turned me to cruddes like chese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not powred me out as milke, and cruddled me like cheese?
Hast thou not powred me as it were milke, & turned me to cruddes like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Whether thou hast not mylkid me as mylk, and hast cruddid me togidere as cheese?
Have you not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Did You not pour me out like milk, And curdle me like cheese,
You guided my conception and formed me in the womb.
Did You not pour me out like milk and make me become hard like cheese?
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
Didst thou not, like milk, pour me forth? and, as cheese, curdle me?
Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
'Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
poured: Psalms 139:14-16
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:18 - cheeses Ecclesiastes 3:20 - all are Ephesians 4:16 - fitly
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And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
In the days of Am'raphel king of Shinar, Ar'ioch king of Ella'sar, Ched-or-lao'mer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goi'im,
Is not Calno like Car'chemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Sama'ria like Damascus?
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
At that time Mer'odach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
"Go up against the land of Meratha'im, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay, and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.
And the Lord gave Jehoi'akim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
Pass over to Calneh, and see; and thence go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,
Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hast thou not poured me out as milk,.... Expressing, in modest terms, his conception from the seed of his parents, comparable to milk, from being a liquid, and for its colour:
and curdled me like cheese? that of the female being mixed with, and heated by the male, is hardened like the curd of which a cheese is made, and begins to receive a form as that, and becomes an embryo: and naturalists k make use of the same expressions when speaking of these things; and in this way most interpreters carry the sense of the words; but Schultens observes that milk is an emblem of purity and holiness, see Lamentations 4:7; and so this may respect the original pure formation of man, who came out of his Maker's hands a pure, holy and upright creature, made after his image and in his likeness, created in righteousness and holiness, and so, like milk, pure and white; or rather the regeneration and sanctification of Job personally, and which might be very early, as in Jeremiah, John the Baptist, and others; or however, he was filled and adorned with the gifts and graces of the spirit of God, was washed and cleansed, and sanctified and justified; and had his conversation in the world in all simplicity and godly sincerity, being preserved from gross enormities in life; was a man that feared God and eschewed evil, and had not only the form of godliness, but the power of it; and was established and confirmed in and by the grace of God, and was strong in the exercise of it; and from hence he argues with God, should such a vessel of grace, whom he had made so pure and holy, and had so consolidated and strengthened in a spiritual and religious way, be crushed and destroyed at once?
k "Sic semen maris dicitur" πιτυα, Aristot. de Gen. Animal. l. 1. c. 20. "coagulum". Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 15. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 3. c. 16.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hast thou not poured me out as milk? - The whole image in this verse and the following, is designed to fur nish an illustration of the origin and growth of the human frame. The Note of Dr. Good may be transcribed, as furnishing an illustration of what may have possibly been the meaning of Job. “The whole of the simile is highly correct and beautiful, and has not been neglected by the best poets of Greece and Rome. From the well-tempered or mingled milk of the chyle, every individual atom of every individual organ in the human frame, the most compact and consolidated, as well as the soft and pliable, is perpetually supplied and renewed, through the medium of a system of lacteals or milk-vessels, as they are usually called in anatomy, from the nature of this common chyle or milk which they circulate. Into the delicate stomach of the infant it is introduced in the form of milk; but even in the adult it must be reduced to some such form, whatever be the substance he feed upon, by the conjoint action of the stomach and other chylifactive organs, before it can become the basis of animal nutriment.
It then circulates through the system, and either continues fluid as milk in its simple state, or is rendered solid as milk is in its caseous or cheese-state, according to the nature of the organ which it supplies with its vital current.” True as this is, however, as a matter of physiology, now well understood, a doubt may arise whether Job was acquainted with the method thus described, in which man is sustained. The idea of Job is, that God was the author of the human frame, and that that frame was so formed as to evince his wonderful and incomprehensible wisdom. A consultation of the works on physiology, which explain the facts about the formation and the growth of the human body, will show that there are few things which more strikingly evince the wisdom of God than the formation of the human frame, alike at its origin, and in every stage of its development. It is a subject, however, which cannot, with propriety, be pursued in a work of this kind.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 10:10. Hast thou not poured me out as milk — After all that some learned men have said on this subject, in order to confine the images here to simple nutrition, I am satisfied that generation is the true notion. Respicit ad fetus in matris utero primam formationem, quum in embryonem ex utriusque parentis semine coalescit. - Ex semine liquido, lac quodammodo referente, me formasti. - In interpretando, inquit Hieronymus, omnino his accedo qui de genitali semine accipiunt, quod ipsa tanquam natura emulget, ac dein concrescere in utero ad coalescere jubet. I make no apology for leaving this untranslated.
The different expressions in this and the following verse are very appropriate: the pouring out like milk-coagulating, clothing with skin and flesh, fencing with bones and sinews, are well imagined, and delicately, and at the same time forcibly, expressed.
If I believed that Job referred to nutrition, which I do not, I might speak of the chyle, the chylopoietic organs, the lacteal vessels, and the generation of all the solids and fluids from this substance, which itself is derived from the food taken into the stomach. But this process, properly speaking, does not take place till the human being is brought into the world, it being previously nourished by the mother by means of the funis umbilicus, without that action of the stomach by which the chyle is prepared.
